by Carrie Duncan | Mar 20, 2018 | Grades 3–5
By Jody Guarino We know instructional materials play a key role in student learning experiences but how do we ensure our students are learning from coherent high-quality instructional materials that engage them in critical thinking and provide opportunities to “do...
by Carrie Duncan | Aug 16, 2017 | Grades 6–8
By William McCallum and Kristin Umland In her book Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics, Liping Ma wrote about this question and how teachers responded to it: Write a story problem for $1 ¾ \div ½$. [Pause here and think about the answer yourself.] Many people...